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Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912 | www.dailytrojan.com | VOL. 177, NO. 67 | Thursday DECEMBER 6, 2012
InDEX 4 · Opinion 5 · Lifestyle 8 · Classifieds 9 · Crossword 12 · Sports
Finals: Koreatown’s
cafes make great study
locations. PAGE 5
Road woes: USC men’s
basketball loses its fourth
game in a row. PAGE 12
Profile
By Chelsea stone
Daily Trojan
Alex Fullman, a senior majoring
in political science, was sitting in
photography class when he received
news that would change his life.
“We were reviewing photos that
day, and I have to admit that day I
wasn’t paying very much attention
to what was being said in class,”
Fullman said. “Right when we were
talking about my photos, that’s
when they called me. It was terrible
luck.”
Most would probably disagree,
since the phone call Fullman
received that day was to inform
him that he had been awarded the
Marshall Scholarship, a grant for
American undergraduate students
to pursue a graduate degree in the
United Kingdom.
Fullman, who will attend the
University of Oxford in London
next year, found out about the
scholarship through the Office
of Academic & International
Fellowships. The staff at the office
helped him with the process of
getting endorsed by the university
and submitting an application. Once
Fullman was selected as a finalist,
he completed an interview with the
British Consulate. Less than a week
later, on Nov. 13, Fullman found out
he was a recipient.
“I don’t know that [attending
graduate school in the United
Kingdom] is something I would
have done without the Marshall
Scholarship,” Fullman said. “The
opportunity to study at Oxford,
which is really one of the world’s
great universities, is extraordinary.”
The Marshall Scholarship was
created by a 1953 act of the British
Parliament in honor of United
States Secretary of State George C.
Marshall and his Marshall Plan,
which helped rebuild Western
Europe after World War II.
The scholarship funds up to 40
high-achieving American students
to study in the United Kingdom at
the graduate level.
Fullman plans to pursue a
master’s degree in philosophy in
comparative government. He plans
to focus his studies on campaign
finance, a topic he also researched
during his time as an undergraduate
at USC.
“At Oxford, I’m hoping to take a
comparative approach to campaign
finance to see if different campaign
finance systems have different
impacts on various metrics,
such as an anti-corruption and
participation in government,”
Fullman said.
Fullman, who has been to London
three times, said he wanted to study
in England because it is one of his
favorite countries. He said that he’s
most looking forward to immersing
himself in university life, learning
more about British culture and
meeting his new classmates and the
other scholarship recipients.
At USC, Fullman is the editor
in chief of the USC Journal of
Law and Society, president of the
Blackstonians Pre-Law Honor
Society, vice president for student
life at USC Hillel and a student
worker in the Office of the Provost.
After attaining his master’s
degree, Fullman hopes to attend
law school. Fullman said that his
inspiration for studying law and
government stems from his desire
to contribute to equal rights.
“For me, equality is one of
the great virtues of our society,”
Fullman said. “Equality is one of
the things that tie together a lot
of the works that I’ve done. I hope
to ultimately be in a position to
promote equality, and I hope that
studying at Oxford will set me on
that path.”
Fullman will study at Oxford as Marshall scholar
The Blackstonians’ president
plans to attend law school
after studying in England.
Photo courtesy of Alex Fullman
Scholar · Alex Fullman, a senior majoring in political science, will
study law at the University of Oxford on a Marshall Scholarship grant.
election
By Annie wanless
Daily Trojan
Los Angeles County announced
Sunday that Measure J, a ballot
proposition aiming to extend a half-cent
sales tax benefiting transit
projects until 2069, failed by only .56
percent.
The half-cent sales tax will remain
in effect until 2039 because voters
passed Measure R in 2008. Measure
J, the extension of Measure R, needed
14,000 more votes to pass and
would have helped expedite transit
construction projects, including the
creation of subway lines that extend
to Westwood and Santa Monica.
Tax measures require a two-thirds
majority to pass, and only 66.1 percent
of voters were in favor of extending
the measure.
Had Measure J passed, Metro
would have had the ability to borrow
against expected future revenue
and accelerate current projects
implemented under Measure R. It
also would have required Metro
break ground on 15 major transit and
freeway projects in five years rather
than 20.
Students
react to
Measure J
Had Measure J passed, the city
would have extended a half-cent
tax for transportation.
| see meas ure, page 2 |
Priyanka Patel | Daily Trojan
Food fight
Students order food from the Gravy Truck in Alumni Park on Thursday as part of the
annual “USC Food Truck War,” hosted by the USC Interfraternity and Panhellenic Council.
The proceeds from the event, which lasted from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., benefit Troy Camp.
By chelsea stone
Daily Trojan
USC Information Technology Services is working
to solve a hardware problem that has affected the
USC Wireless and USC Wireless Plus networks since
Tuesday.
Technicians have confirmed the problem is related
to the network’s hardware, but the cause of the
issue is still unknown, according to Kevin Durkin,
director of communications and marketing for ITS.
“Since we haven’t fully diagnosed the issue, we
have no timeline on when it will be fixed,” Durkin
said.
Durkin noted that the wired Internet network has
been unaffected by the glitch.
Chris Amezcua, a freshman majoring in
USC Wireless
outages lead
to frustration
The wireless network, which has been spotty
since Tuesday, is the result of faulty hardware.
| see Wifi, page 3 |
transportation campus
By Charlotte spangler
Daily Trojan
Nearly 10 months after its debut,
the LA Metro Expo Line attracts tens
of thousands of boardings per day —
a fact that is helped by being so close
to USC, according to Metro.
Since its opening on April 28, the
Expo Line has brought thousands of
students and community members
onto the Metro system. The 8.6 mile-long
line serves riders from Culver
City to Downtown Los Angeles, with
three stops near USC.
The Expo Line ends at the 7th
Street/Metro Center, which connects
Expo Line
ridership is
increasing
LA Metro says that ridership
increases by about 8,000 riders
for USC football gamedays.
| see expo, page 3 |
This is the last edition of the
Daily Trojan for the fall semester.
Circulation will begin Jan. 15 for spring.
See dailytrojan.com for updates.

Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912 | www.dailytrojan.com | VOL. 177, NO. 67 | Thursday DECEMBER 6, 2012
InDEX 4 · Opinion 5 · Lifestyle 8 · Classifieds 9 · Crossword 12 · Sports
Finals: Koreatown’s
cafes make great study
locations. PAGE 5
Road woes: USC men’s
basketball loses its fourth
game in a row. PAGE 12
Profile
By Chelsea stone
Daily Trojan
Alex Fullman, a senior majoring
in political science, was sitting in
photography class when he received
news that would change his life.
“We were reviewing photos that
day, and I have to admit that day I
wasn’t paying very much attention
to what was being said in class,”
Fullman said. “Right when we were
talking about my photos, that’s
when they called me. It was terrible
luck.”
Most would probably disagree,
since the phone call Fullman
received that day was to inform
him that he had been awarded the
Marshall Scholarship, a grant for
American undergraduate students
to pursue a graduate degree in the
United Kingdom.
Fullman, who will attend the
University of Oxford in London
next year, found out about the
scholarship through the Office
of Academic & International
Fellowships. The staff at the office
helped him with the process of
getting endorsed by the university
and submitting an application. Once
Fullman was selected as a finalist,
he completed an interview with the
British Consulate. Less than a week
later, on Nov. 13, Fullman found out
he was a recipient.
“I don’t know that [attending
graduate school in the United
Kingdom] is something I would
have done without the Marshall
Scholarship,” Fullman said. “The
opportunity to study at Oxford,
which is really one of the world’s
great universities, is extraordinary.”
The Marshall Scholarship was
created by a 1953 act of the British
Parliament in honor of United
States Secretary of State George C.
Marshall and his Marshall Plan,
which helped rebuild Western
Europe after World War II.
The scholarship funds up to 40
high-achieving American students
to study in the United Kingdom at
the graduate level.
Fullman plans to pursue a
master’s degree in philosophy in
comparative government. He plans
to focus his studies on campaign
finance, a topic he also researched
during his time as an undergraduate
at USC.
“At Oxford, I’m hoping to take a
comparative approach to campaign
finance to see if different campaign
finance systems have different
impacts on various metrics,
such as an anti-corruption and
participation in government,”
Fullman said.
Fullman, who has been to London
three times, said he wanted to study
in England because it is one of his
favorite countries. He said that he’s
most looking forward to immersing
himself in university life, learning
more about British culture and
meeting his new classmates and the
other scholarship recipients.
At USC, Fullman is the editor
in chief of the USC Journal of
Law and Society, president of the
Blackstonians Pre-Law Honor
Society, vice president for student
life at USC Hillel and a student
worker in the Office of the Provost.
After attaining his master’s
degree, Fullman hopes to attend
law school. Fullman said that his
inspiration for studying law and
government stems from his desire
to contribute to equal rights.
“For me, equality is one of
the great virtues of our society,”
Fullman said. “Equality is one of
the things that tie together a lot
of the works that I’ve done. I hope
to ultimately be in a position to
promote equality, and I hope that
studying at Oxford will set me on
that path.”
Fullman will study at Oxford as Marshall scholar
The Blackstonians’ president
plans to attend law school
after studying in England.
Photo courtesy of Alex Fullman
Scholar · Alex Fullman, a senior majoring in political science, will
study law at the University of Oxford on a Marshall Scholarship grant.
election
By Annie wanless
Daily Trojan
Los Angeles County announced
Sunday that Measure J, a ballot
proposition aiming to extend a half-cent
sales tax benefiting transit
projects until 2069, failed by only .56
percent.
The half-cent sales tax will remain
in effect until 2039 because voters
passed Measure R in 2008. Measure
J, the extension of Measure R, needed
14,000 more votes to pass and
would have helped expedite transit
construction projects, including the
creation of subway lines that extend
to Westwood and Santa Monica.
Tax measures require a two-thirds
majority to pass, and only 66.1 percent
of voters were in favor of extending
the measure.
Had Measure J passed, Metro
would have had the ability to borrow
against expected future revenue
and accelerate current projects
implemented under Measure R. It
also would have required Metro
break ground on 15 major transit and
freeway projects in five years rather
than 20.
Students
react to
Measure J
Had Measure J passed, the city
would have extended a half-cent
tax for transportation.
| see meas ure, page 2 |
Priyanka Patel | Daily Trojan
Food fight
Students order food from the Gravy Truck in Alumni Park on Thursday as part of the
annual “USC Food Truck War,” hosted by the USC Interfraternity and Panhellenic Council.
The proceeds from the event, which lasted from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., benefit Troy Camp.
By chelsea stone
Daily Trojan
USC Information Technology Services is working
to solve a hardware problem that has affected the
USC Wireless and USC Wireless Plus networks since
Tuesday.
Technicians have confirmed the problem is related
to the network’s hardware, but the cause of the
issue is still unknown, according to Kevin Durkin,
director of communications and marketing for ITS.
“Since we haven’t fully diagnosed the issue, we
have no timeline on when it will be fixed,” Durkin
said.
Durkin noted that the wired Internet network has
been unaffected by the glitch.
Chris Amezcua, a freshman majoring in
USC Wireless
outages lead
to frustration
The wireless network, which has been spotty
since Tuesday, is the result of faulty hardware.
| see Wifi, page 3 |
transportation campus
By Charlotte spangler
Daily Trojan
Nearly 10 months after its debut,
the LA Metro Expo Line attracts tens
of thousands of boardings per day —
a fact that is helped by being so close
to USC, according to Metro.
Since its opening on April 28, the
Expo Line has brought thousands of
students and community members
onto the Metro system. The 8.6 mile-long
line serves riders from Culver
City to Downtown Los Angeles, with
three stops near USC.
The Expo Line ends at the 7th
Street/Metro Center, which connects
Expo Line
ridership is
increasing
LA Metro says that ridership
increases by about 8,000 riders
for USC football gamedays.
| see expo, page 3 |
This is the last edition of the
Daily Trojan for the fall semester.
Circulation will begin Jan. 15 for spring.
See dailytrojan.com for updates.